Software Engineer - Digital Assets
Optiver is a global technology- and research-driven proprietary trading firm and market maker providing liquidity across financial markets, including through an active 24/7 Digital Assets desk.
About Optiver
Founded in Amsterdam in 1986, Optiver uses its own capital, quantitative research and proprietary technology to continuously quote, price and trade financial instruments across global markets. Its activities include listed derivatives, cash equities, ETFs, bonds, foreign currencies and digital assets; its Digital Assets desk operates crypto options market-making strategies across major venues with follow-the-sun coverage.
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Candidate Availability
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About the Role
You will build and evolve trading systems for cryptocurrency markets, working side-by-side with traders and researchers to turn market insights into production systems. You will develop connectivity to centralised exchanges, improve reliability through automation and monitoring, troubleshoot issues, and help shape the architecture of the digital assets platform while owning production systems.
Requirements
- Experience building high-performance, reliable systems ideally involving exchange connectivity, market data, trading infrastructure or other real-time applications
- Solid understanding of software architecture, networking, distributed systems and failure handling
- Strong problem-solving skills and interest in complex technical challenges in fast-paced environments
- Ability to take ownership and partner closely with traders and researchers
- Able to translate ambiguous trading requirements into practical engineering solutions
- Beneficial: C++ development skills
- Beneficial: experience integrating with centralised cryptocurrency exchanges
- Beneficial: experience with cloud technologies (AWS, GCP)
Responsibilities
- Design and build trading systems for digital asset markets
- Develop and manage connectivity to centralised exchanges such as Binance, Deribit, and OKX
- Work directly with traders and researchers to prototype and iterate on trading strategies
- Improve system reliability through automation, monitoring, and robust recovery mechanisms
- Troubleshoot issues across trading systems and exchange integrations
- Contribute to architecture and help shape the digital assets platform
- Take ownership of production systems and drive continuous improvements
Benefits
- Performance-based bonus structure with global profit pool
- 27 paid vacation days plus UK public holidays
- Daily breakfast and lunch
- Commuting expenses support
- Private medical insurance
- Pension scheme
- ClassPass fitness membership
- Training and access to conferences and tech events
- International transfer opportunities